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The motion of car is defined by the number of cylinder pumps installed in the vehicle. The number and placement of the pumps determines the range of motion the automobile has. A hydraulic dump valve called a "dump" is used to control the downward movement of the car.
Lowrider car culture began in Los Angeles, California, in the mid-to-late 1940s, and grew during the post-war prosperity of the 1950s within African-American & Mexican-American youth culture. Conversion of standard production vehicles included adding lowering blocks and cut-down spindles , reduced-length suspension spring coils , and creating ...
One of the earliest hydraulic dampers to go into production was the Telesco Shock Absorber, exhibited at the 1912 Olympia Motor Show and marketed by Polyrhoe Carburettors Ltd. [3] This contained a spring inside the telescopic unit like the pure spring type 'shock absorbers' mentioned above, but also oil and an internal valve so that the oil ...
The Spanish sub-secretary of weapons, with the help of Soviet engineers, started the development of a new heavy armoured vehicle in April 1937, taking the BA-6 as a reference. The most famous vehicle was the AAC-1937, which was based on the chassis of the Chevrolet SD 1937 truck from General Motors Peninsular, produced in Barcelona .
[16] [17] Production of the Straight Eight continued through several changes in management, [17] [18] placement of the Duesenberg Automobiles and Motors Company into receivership in January 1924, [2] [17] [19] and the restructuring of the company into the Duesenberg Motor Company in February 1925, [2] [17] [20] until the purchase of the company ...
The Whirlpool Aero Car or Spanish Aero Car is a cable car located in Niagara Falls, Ontario that transports passengers over a section of the Niagara River referred to as the Niagara Whirlpool. The system was designed by Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo and has been upgraded several times since 1916 (in 1961, 1967 and 1984). [ 1 ]
This was the first production car in the world to utilise an active suspension system. The suspension employed conventional coil-spring struts and 4-wheel steering. No anti-roll (stabiliser) bars were fitted as the strut damping was actively controlled by a combined power steering/suspension fluid pump and valve body that counteracted roll and ...
The Champion Series is one of the star ranges that has survived in the catalog for decades: these are vehicles on a scale between 1/28, 1/58 and 1/87, an approximate size of 7 cm, in which These include street and rally cars, 4x4s, utility and construction machines, as well as racing and motocross bikes.